The Mankato free press., 1887-09-23
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Governor Foraker opened his cam
lpaigfi i'd Ohio last SaEtifday In s,he OF the
fbegt speeches that has ever been made
] in that State. He.Dot .onIg treated all
the local state Issues in qTlaaesly man
ner, but farming to national Azaairs he
presented The Reptfiiican' position with
such ability as to ave Die 1le 70 tbose Of
his enemies who claim. that he is 9
"smsll-sized statesman. $~SbB Foraker
is rising man and the Demotss5s may
well keep their eye upon him. Governs
or Foraker has been strongly accused on
various occasions Of waving the bloody
shirt We append an extract from his
Caldwell speech which states his view
of what the Republicans want, and If
there is any "bIoody shirt in it, it il
there to stay He said:
| What the people of the North want Is
entire peace and fraternity forth whole
land and the people OF every section.
But they want this peace and good will
on the basis of a complete recognition
and acceptance of all the fruits and re-
suits Of the war, and they will not have
| if0theTwlse. They do not want, and
will not have anything at the expense
of writing down the Union soldiers as
lot of tramps and yagabonds, nor upon
the condition that the men who sought
to destroy the Union shall be elevated
10 the same plane of patriotism with the
men who saved it. Neither viii We be
content, so long as there is systematic
denial of right at the ballot-box or
otherwise 10 any class whatever Of cit
izens. We are gladly willing TO accord
to the mass of the men who bore the
Confederate banner to battle, the sim
cerest convictions of duty and the dis
play of the highest possible degree Of
manly courage and heroic valorSS tut We
are not willing to recognize in any way
whatever, in the slightest degree, any
act or speech that indicates q changed
estimate of the ideas upon which the
Confederacy was based, and hence il is
that we can not patiently listen TO harsh
criticisms of our soldiers, the extolling
of Jefferson Davis, or proposition to
surrender, in the way that il was pro-
posed, the rebel battle-hags. Whenever
those flags are disposed of, if they ever
are in our time. the men who captured
them should be heard, and they should
be 80 dealt with as to make ii sure that
they will never be haunted to the breeze
again. Great and broad as our country
is, it has room for only one flag, and that
shall be the stars and stripes. What we
want, in other words, is that all ques-
tions involved in the war shall stand just
where the war left them. and that with
the settlement of that great struggle ac-
guessed in and upheld. our backs, both
North and South, shall be turned for
ever upon all sectional prejudice and
bitterness to the end that we may go
forward, shoulder to shoulder. as one
people, in the enjoyment of common
prosperity, to the Achievement of that
magnificent destiny, grander than any
language Lan describe, that is wrapped
up in the years of the future for the
whole American people. l rejoice in
the belief that, notwithstanding the un-
wise action of the President and, not
withstanding the Incorporate and un-
patriotic language of many newspapers
and leaders of the Democratic party,
this desire is shared by the great body
of the people of all sections of the coun-
try.
The sentiment that was rapidly grow
ing, and had become well nigh univers-
al, and which is still entertained by the
great mass Of the people of both sec
tons, is that which the people of the
North, and particularly the people of
Ohio, manifested toward the people of
Charleston when that city was overtaken
by the horrors of earthquake. There
was nothing that the most loving kind
ness could Suggest that we were not
ready and anxious to do, and no people
ever acknowledged a kindness with a
more affectionate appreciation than was
expressed by the worthy. Mayor of that
city. / am sure he and his fellow-cit-
izens are intelligent enough to under
stand the difference between the feeling
we have for the people of the South, and
for the ideas for which they were led to
their and our slaughter twenty-five years
ago; and / am sure, too, that they are
intelligent enough and manly enough to
appreciate the one and respect the other,
1t would be fortunate thing if all had
equal power of Judgment and discrimin-
alton. We would then go forward with
out a jar, as we should to a DEVELOPMENT
of our physical resources and the up
building of that great internal commerce
which is rapidly developing between
the sections, and which is so well cal
culated to bind us together in stronger
bonds of union than any that can be
forged by constitutional provision or
legislative enactment. The great duty
of the hour, then, is to put down the
men and the party who have again flung
into our faces these offensive and trea-
sonable ideas that once so nearly de-
stroyed us, and which are so well cal
culated to do so again. We want peace
and prosperity; we want to see on every
hand the flaming fires of furnaces and
foundries, the whirling spindles and the
moving machinery. We want multi
plication of the great highways of travel
and commerce; we want diversity of
employment and development of all our
resources, and no rivalry except in trade
and loyal devotion to the general well
fare of our common country.